Last modified: 2006-02-23 03:20:21 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=963535&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2004-05-31 13:55 The basic functionality doesn't work; see [[en:Category:Sports]] for example. But there is also a more complex issue: If Category:Sports is redirected to Category:Sport, all the pages categorized into Category:Sports should be listed on page Category:Sport as if they had been categorized into Category:Sport in the first place. ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2004-07-11 16:29 Sender: SF user ssducf Redirects in categories to work with the normal redirect syntax. However, this adds the redirected category to the target category too. If the extrea colon is added after the bracket, as normally done to link to a category without putting the current article into it, then the redirect does not work. (There is a similar problem with category links in the history comment.) Also, as already mentioned, if the category is redirected, articles can still be assigned to it, but nobody will see them as they will not so up in the category that is the redirect target.
*** Bug 113 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ok got it fixed in cvs. Two ways to links now: #REDIRECT [[Category:Music]] Will add the article to the category and redirect to it. #REDIRECT [[:Category:Music]] Redirect but do NOT add it to the category music.
Only second half of bug fixed by Ashar's patch. Pages categorized into a redirected category still do not appear in the redirection target. Set "severity" to "enhancement".
Perhaps this would be best solved by not allowing people to actually link articles to redirected categories. This could be accomplished by giving an error message with the suggested replacement, by automatically altering the text right as it is saved. Alternatively, a bot could periodically clean up articles linking to redirective categories. -B.
It is realy a complicated issue - first not to include the the redirected category in the target one and - seccond display the articles AND subcategories from the redirected category in the target one. There are many possibilies which sould be handeled / disabeled: - putting a colon before the category - putting a colon xx colon before the category (as :en: for en.wikipedia) - redirecting to another namespace - redirecting to another project (another language, quotes, whatever else) Regards Reinhardt
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 710 ***
Is this really resolved? How should I redirect a category then?
